Stardust Kepler will be able to process workflow models and audit trail databases created with previous Stardust versions.
Compatibility may be provided via migration tooling (upgrade jobs).
Whether eclipse workspace compatibility will be provided has not been decided yet.

Aside of working on features, the main priority of this release will be to establish support for the Kepler and Juno platform versions and
perform all necessary version upgrades to upstream eclipse plugins and other third party libraries that will be required in the process.

Runtime Platform Upgrades

Some of the supported runtime platforms will be modernized. This will likely include support for:

MS SQL Server 2012

JBoss Application Server 7.1

Tomcat 7

Enhanced Maven Support

The Stardust build files will be refactored to fully rely on Maven mechanisms and eliminate other
build technologies wherever possible.

Consumption of the Stardust engine with its transient dependencies via Maven will be further simplified
for consuming projects.

Maven archetypes will be provided that allow for automated assembly of Stardust server deployments.

Various Minor Fixes and Enhancements

A considerable part of the effort spent on the Stardsut Kepler release will go into minor fixes and enhancemensts as well as
code refactoring.
Detail planning to be added.